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Slumbery

adjective
1.
Inclined to or marked by drowsiness.  Synonyms: slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent.  "'slumbery' is archaic" , "The sound had a somnolent effect"





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... a moment of surprise should be carefully led up to by anticipatory suggestion. Before Lady Macbeth is disclosed walking in her sleep, her doctor and her waiting-gentlewoman are sent on to tell the audience of her "slumbery agitation." This is excellent art in the theatre; but it would be bad art in the pages of a novel. In a story written to be read, surprise is most effective when ...
— A Manual of the Art of Fiction • Clayton Hamilton


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